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$1.4M in Bitcoin Remains Idle — The Curious Case of the 37-Day-Old 2009 Block Reward Spent a Year Ago
2.6.2021
Approximately 378 days ago, before the bitcoin bull market started to heat up, a unique block was spent stemming from a coinbase reward created 37 days after the Bitcoin network launched. It seems roughly ten coins from the block reward were sold to an exchange, but 40 bitcoin worth $1.4 million...
Crypto Employment Abounds With More Than 8,000 Jobs in 2020
18.1.2020
During the last year, the cryptoconomy has picked up pace after a drawn out crypto winter. When market prices were low and startups were short on capital, a bunch of firms laid off employees in 2018. A year later, and digital currency companies are hiring. Also read: Regulatory Roundup: EU-Wide...
Fairspin Casino Players Won Over 40,000 ETH
15.1.2020
Blockchain casino Fairspin paid out more than 40,000 ETH to players in its first full year of operation.
The casino was founded in late 2018 under the name of Fairplay. A year later, it was rebranded into Fairspin to emphasize the casino’s key distinctive feature – each spin in every game...
Grayscale Commences Diversified Large Cap Fund Trading
24.11.2019
In February 2018, Grayscale Investments, the sponsor of the Bitcoin Trust (OTCQX: GBTC) announced the Grayscale Digital Large Cap Fund, an investment vehicle that captures a basket of the top digital assets within the cryptoconomy. A year later on November 22, the firm revealed the diversified...
More than One Year Later, BTC Price Skyrockets Past $10K
22.6.2019
On June 21, the price of bitcoin core (BTC) crossed the $10,000 mark for the first time since March 08, 2018. At the moment BTC has a $180 billion dollar market capitalization as the cryptocurrency gathered more than 166% over the last six months. Also read: These Are 2019’s Biggest...
Yahoo Japan-Backed Exchange Launches Crypto-Yen Markets and Margin Trading
10.6.2019
Back in April 2018, it was revealed that Yahoo Japan was planning to launch a cryptocurrency exchange licensed by Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA). Now, a year later, Yahoo Japan’s trading platform Taotao is open offering BTC and ETH trading while also providing users with margin...
Creating an Animated Login Form for TouchID
11.12.2018
I came across this amazing Dribbble shot by Jakub Reis a while back. It caught my eye and I knew that I just had to try recreating it in code. At that moment, I didn’t know how. I tried out a bunch of different things, and about a year later, I finally managed to make this demo.
I learned a couple...